Develop Your Leadership Skills

Develop Your Leadership Skills is leadership guru John Adair's most accessible title on leadership. This essential pocket guide will boost your confidence levels, inspire you and guide you on your journey to becoming a leader of excellence. Acknowledged as a world expert, John Adair offers stimulating insights into recognizing and developing individual leadership qualities, acquiring personal authority and, most importantly, mastering core leadership functions such as planning, communicating and motivating. Fully updated for 2019, this 4th edition now features even more practical exercises, useful templates, and top tips to improve or develop your leadership skills, this guide distils the essence of John Adair's teaching and provides a framework for becoming an effective leader.The Creating Success series of books...Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series. Written by experts for new and aspiring managers and leaders, this million-selling collection of accessible and empowering guides will get you up to speed in no time. Packed with clever thinking, smart advice and the kind of winning techniques that really get results, you'll make fast progress, quickly reach your goals and create lasting success in your career.

New to this edition: New and improved practical features to aid learning, including useful templates, top tips, and interactive, reflective exercises

Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: What you have to be; Chapter - 02: What you have to know; Chapter - 03: What you need to do; Chapter - 04: How to turn the core leadership functions into skills; Chapter - 05: How to develop yourself as a leader; Chapter - 06: How to lead at the strategic level; Chapter - 07: How to grow leaders in your organization